Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I see. Anything your parochial. limited, MUA can't render is >> gibberish. Robbe> Obviously, since I'm not able to interpret raw UTF8 sequences beyond Robbe> U+007F in my head. You X-Face is surely to people without the right Robbe

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mail setups that do not understand MIME are antiquated to the point > that most email must be hard to deal with. Fine by me. > Robbe> But you were using characters outside ASCII as well, so one > Robbe> needs tools to turn them from UTF8 gibberi

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, *Sigh*. I guess any initiative without a flame war would be un-debian. Who am I, then, to flaunt tradition? >>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robbe> Obviously MIME is mandatory for participation in policy Robbe> process I infer from your "Fix your MUA" com

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-09 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robbe> Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used > Robbe> U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.) > > > Mandatory? mandated by whom? Obviously MIME is mandatory for participation in policy process I infer from your "Fix your MUA" comm

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Brendan" == Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brendan> See Bug#160054. I forgot to back-whack some hyphens in the debsums Brendan> manpage and groff helpfully translated them to a unicode glyph. Yes. But there are other reasons when mails get quoted printable. Like when the

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Er, manoj, it'd help if you mailed the bts bug# when you Adam> responded to bugs. You then don't need to mail -policy at all, Adam> as the bts will forward all mails sent to a bug to the Adam> maintainer(which -policy is, in this case).

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Robbe> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> shite? Fix your own darned MUA. > > Robbe> Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used > Robbe> U+20

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:53:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> there are only two lines or original content in the message, one >> asking which earlier mail (look into -policy archives), and the Matthew> i have looked at

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:53:45PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > there are only two lines or original content in the message, one > asking which earlier mail (look into -policy archives), and the i have looked at the archive. none of the thread titles seem germane. could you give a hint whic

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matthew> i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly > Matthew> assuming i read, but i'm clearly not subscribed. > > You filed a bug against debian policy. Debian policy is

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly Matthew> assuming i read, but i'm clearly not subscribed. You filed a bug against debian policy. Debian policy issues are dealy with on the debian-policy mai

Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly assuming i read, > but i'm clearly not subscribed. did he respond to the other point i made? -policy.

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read. >> >> shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually,

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
i don't know what mailing list manoj is so arrogantly assuming i read, but i'm clearly not subscribed. did he respond to the other point i made? On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 05:30:57PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > > > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to > > read. > > > > shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually, the

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robbe> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> shite? Fix your own darned MUA. Robbe> Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used Robbe> U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.) Mandatory? mandated by whom? As the

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read. > > shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually, the breakage maybe > in debbugs, since I see my original m

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shite? Fix your own darned MUA. Is Unicode manadatory now? (You somewhat incorrecly used U+2010, hyphen, in that mail.) -- Robbe signature.ng Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> can you not use unprintably-encoded mime shite? it's hard to read. shite? Fix your own darned MUA. (Actually, the breakage maybe in debbugs, since I see my original message to -policy just fine, but the message retrans

Bug#132767: acknowledged by developer (Reviewing policy bugs)

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:48:06AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Perusuant to my message earlier, there are the first set of > pending bug reports. what message earlier? > * #132767: debsum support should be mandatory >Package: debian-policy; Reported by: Matth